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Remembering extinct creatures: The Bronx Zoo’s animal graveyard

On a lawn inside the Bronx Zoo, rows of headstones display multiple animal species, making for an eerie display during the month of October. An Instagram post from an account known as Inside History ...
Hyperallergic

Traces of Extinct Animals at the Armory Show

Brandon Ballengée’s ‘Frameworks of Absence’ (2006–ongoing) in the Ronald Feldman Fine Arts booth at the 2015 Armory Show (photo by Jillian Steinhauer/Hyperallergic) (click to enlarge) The animals have ...

13 Animals Gone Forever in the Past Century — and How Humans Played a Role

Extinction can be a hard reality to confront. It’s one thing to learn about animals like the woolly mammoth or the dodo, ...
The Conversation

The Rodrigues parakeet’s last day: what one extinct bird tells us about the role of museums

Jack Ashby is affiliated with the Natural Sciences Collections Association. One day in August, 1875, a greyish-blue parrot was shot on a small island in the Indian Ocean near Mauritius. It was the ...
Mongabay

Declared extinct in 2025: A look back at some of the species we lost

Some species officially bid us farewell this year. They may have long been gone, but following more recent assessments, they’re now formally categorized as extinct on the IUCN Red List, considered the ...
People

'This Isn't Jurassic Park': New Doc Explores the Science Behind the 'De-Extinction' of Dire Wolves and Other Animals

Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2013, covering pets, animal rescue and wildlife. Curiosity Stream/YouTube Dire wolves, the canine companions from Game ...